Objectives The classification of crime into discrete categories entails a massive loss of information. Crimes emerge out of a complex mix of behaviors and situations, yet most of these details cannot be captured by singular crime type labels. This information loss impacts our ability to not only understand the causes of crime, but also how to develop optimal crime prevention strategies. Methods...

Crime has always been a part of people's daily lives, and statistically speaking, the number crimes never decreased while continuously increasing. Despite fact that no one can predict when crime will occur, this study aims to use spatial temporal analysis in mapping identify patterns hotspots be used by Caloocan Police Substation 03 determine where police officers should patrol prevent criminal...

The discovery of anomalous regions within spatially oriented data can provide valuable insights to the study of disease prevention, crime, and socioeconomic inequality. Spatial scan statistic methods are a common tool used within these fields to discover areas of a data set that have significant variation when compared to the background distribution. However, the effects of data representation ...

Gerbner and Gross’s cultivation theory predicts that prolonged exposure to TV violence creates fear of crime, symptomatic of a mean world syndrome. We tested the theory’s prediction in a time series model with annual changes in violence portrayal on popular US TV shows from 1972 to 2010 as a predictor of changes in public perceptions of local crime rates and fear of crime. We found that contrar...

Brå – a centre of knowledge on crime and measures to combat crime The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet – Brå) works to reduce crime and improve levels of safety in society by producing data and disseminating knowledge on crime and crime prevention work and the justice system's responses to crime.

Fear of crime affects far more people in the United States than crime itself, and there are sound reasons for treating crime and fear of crime as distinct social problems. After assessing the state of knowledge on fear, this chapter considers whether public fear of crime can and ought to be controlled, and the moral and practical implications of doing so. The discussion draws on the literatures...

Lundholm, L. 2013. Substance Use and Violence: Influence of Alcohol, Illicit Drugs and Anabolic Androgenic Steroids on Violent Crime and Self-directed Violence. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 864. 78 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-8590-0. Interpersonal violence and suicide are major health concerns, leading to ...

The study of rural crime has the potential to make important contributions to crime policy, criminological theory, and research methods in criminology. Although most places in America remain rural, researchers have paid insufficient attention to rural crime and have not utilized the wide variations among rural areas as natural laboratories for research. This chapter outlines what is known about...

crime is a human behavior that has captivated the thoughts of scholars of various disciplines throughout history. philosophers, sociologists, psychologists and others have investigated and analyzed the concept of crime from different aspects. crime is the main topic of criminal law, and in its legal meaning is a well-known term with a certain conceptual load that should not be confused with sim...